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William Saleton, over at Slate, proposes changing sex consent laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n

First comes the age at which your brain wants sex and your body signals to others that you’re ready for it. Then comes the age of cognitive competence. Then comes the age of emotional competence. Each of these thresholds should affect our expectations, and the expectations should apply to the older party in a relationship as well as to the younger one. The older you get, the higher the standard to which you should be held responsible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Can sex laws ever follow a formula that sticks to these milestones? Isn’t just easier to call the age of consent 14, and leave it at that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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